The Broadway musical “Fun Home” had fun
at a di erent home when cast members
went to Spotify’s New York headquarters
and knocked out new takes on their Tony
Award-winning songs. The result, available online last Friday, marks the
rst time a Broadway show has participated in Spotify Sessions, the music service’s streaming
program of intimate in-studio performances
and conversations.
During the six-song session, Gabriella Pizzolo
sang an a capella version of “Ring of Keys”
accompanied by a seven-member choir; Beth
Malone sang “Telephone Wire” with the show’s
composer, Jeanine Tesori, on piano; Judy Kuhn
performed “Days and Days” with a harpist; and
Pizzolo, Malone and Emily Skeggs joined for the
show’s nale, “Flying Away,” with harp and piano. The session also included the song “Pony Girl,” a
soft lullaby in the show that Tony-winning actor
Michael Cerveris and his band, Loose Cattle, transformed into a violin-and-guitar foot stomper. And listeners will get a real treat with the seriously
goofy “Changing My Raincoat,” in which Joel
Perez raps and Roberta Colindrez beatboxes a
hysterically funky take on the song “Changing My Major,” which was sung backstage to keep
things loose. “It’s really fun because I love arrangements and
when we were told about this and invited to
revisit the songs, I thought, ‘Let’s really revisit
them. Let’s let it be an opportunity,’”Tesori said afterward.
The musical is based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic
novel memoir about growing up with a closeted
dad in the family’s funeral home business. It won
the 2015 best musical Tony. The Spotify session was recorded Jan. 19 in front
of several dozen Spotify employees. A panel that
included Tesori, book writer and lyricist Lisa Kron
and Bechdel discussed the making of the musical. Online: http://funhomebroadway.com
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